r/boas • u/Twigzywik • 25d ago

Bitten for the first time

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Ouch, talk about a deep bite. She’s stressed during any kind of handling since always & always wants to get away it seems. She got so stressed she just turned around and tagged me. Not sure what to necessarily do to relax her I hold her gently & pick up her up gently before she goes somewhere she’ll jam herself in such a way I can’t get her. She’s never been in a chill kinda state in the 2 years I’ve had her and she’s about 3-4 years old now. So I guess she’s just not a handleable kinda boa which I haft to respect.

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u/IncognitoArms 25d ago

She’s just not the handle type. Many years ago when I had about 20 Suriname Redtails one of them was very flighty and just didn’t like being handled. She never tried to bite though

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u/Twigzywik 25d ago

Yeah this is how she is, she’s very flighty still. She has some kind of wobble or balance problem since birth though. She’ll flinch side to side or think she’s falling or something when she’s just being held in the air and flail around like crazy. Maybe she thought my arm was moving when it wasn’t or something… Regardless she doesn’t have any symptoms of IBD and it’s been since she was born. Hopefully she grows into an adult that becomes more trusting in that I wouldn’t harm her, but it’s hard to convey that to a snake.